Pollution News

RSS

Electric Bus to Hit The Road in California

UQM TECHNOLOGIES, a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced today that an EcoRide BE35 battery-electric transit bus, developed by Proterra LLC, Golden, Colorado, a leading innovator and manufacturer of clean commercial transit solutions, is being showcased on a four city California clean bus tour

11 Feb 2009

University of Dayton Researcher Finds a Cheaper Way to Make Longer Lasting Fuel Cells

Liming Dai, the University of Dayton's Wright Brothers Institute endowed chair in nanomaterials, and fellow scientists have taken a step toward a more efficient fuel cell that can be affordably mass-produced

10 Feb 2009

Study Shows Toxicity Levels of Particulate Matter From Wildfires

A study of coarse and fine particulate matter (PM) generated by the California wildfires of 2008 suggests a toxicity level greater than that of an equivalent dose of PM in ambient air, as reported in the January 2009 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives

9 Feb 2009

EPA "Champion" Award Presented to Barricade Fire Gel

Barricade Fire Gel has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its environmentally friendly formula through the use of safer surfactants and for its efforts in documenting a strategy for ensuring that only safer surfactants are used

9 Feb 2009

Environmental Toxin Eating Technology Successfully Trialled by Microbial Solutions

Microbial Solutions has developed an innovative, ecologically friendly bacterial treatment, known as Microcycle Technology, which turns toxic exhausted metal working fluids into grey water that is safe to dispose of in the sewerage system

9 Feb 2009

Scientists Get Closer to High Efficiency Mass Produced Fuel Cells Made Using Nanotechnology

Researchers have found that carbon nanotubes containing nitrogen are cheaper and work better than platinum in providing long-term fuel cell power

8 Feb 2009

Predicting theEnvironmental Impact of Building Construction

A team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) has developed a method that makes it possible to evaluate the environmental impacts caused during the construction of buildings in advance

5 Feb 2009

Topsoil Screener That Allows Onsite Screening and Recycling of Topsoil

The EZ-Screen 1200XL enables contractors to recycle topsoil on the jobsite, eliminating energy consumption used on disposing of old soil and trucking in new soil

2 Feb 2009

University of Leeds and Zhejiang University in China Team Up on Energy Issues

The University of Leeds has announced a strategic research alliance with one of China's leading universities, Zhejiang University, to focus on some of today's key energy challenges

26 Jan 2009

New Book Looks at Crop Response to Water and Water Requirements for Farming

A new book, "Response of Crops to Limited Water: Understanding and Modeling Water Stress Effects on Plant Growth Processes," hopes to tackle serious water issues for agriculture like irrigation, water pollution and allocation of water for crop production

26 Jan 2009